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Addressing Trust Challenges in Connected Learning
Any learning is inherently risky. The second we enter spaces to learn stuff, we are acknowledging that there are things we don’t know and that we trust the environment, place and people...
Categories: Connected Learning, Digital CitizenshipConnecting Youth Interests Via Libraries
As libraries across the country reimagine themselves, patrons, particularly young ones, are finding them more relevant in today’s technological age. Examples of innovative projects, tapping into the power of the Internet, include...
Categories: Connected Learning, Digital LearningMaking Learning More Connected
I consider myself pretty invested in the Connected Learning community. I had the privilege of co-chairing the "Civic Education and Youth Serving Organizations" strand of the Digital Media and Learning conference in...
Category: Connected LearningFear and Learning in Las Vegas
I hung out with popular children's and young adult authors like Mo Willems and Lemony Snicket and Markus Zusak last week. Okay, maybe “hung out” is too strong a description. I mainly...
Category: Connected LearningA lot of the work we have been doing as part of the connected learning community has focused on children and young people. We design digital tools that create new ways for...
Category: Connected LearningExplaining the Research of Connected Learning
The idea of “connected learning” encompasses a way of theorising and describing the kinds of learning that take place against the grain, as it were, in places where we might not usually...
Category: Connected LearningA single question — “How are young people changing socially in terms of how they learn and how they civically engage because of digital media?” — launched the John D. and Catherine...
Category: Connected LearningTheory of Knowledge, Social Media and Connected Learning in High School
I’m an advocate of cultivating and tuning the network of people I follow on Twitter, a practice that includes my willingness to respond to those I didn’t previously know who solicit my...
Categories: Connected Learning, Digital LearningThe Rise of Writing Literacies, Implications for Libraries
The look of any library — school, academic, or public — is always dependent on local needs in a community, but the feature that has traditionally characterized all types of libraries is...
Categories: Connected Learning, Digital CitizenshipTeaching in the Connected Learning Classroom: New Report
Last week saw the release of Teaching in the Connected Learning Classroom, a free Connected Learning report I edited. I’m hoping you’ll spend some time reading it — it features a plethora...
Category: Connected LearningMaking Academic Research Purposeful, Accessible in Connected Learning Era
Two weeks ago, the Internet squabbled in the hoopla that resulted from author J.K. Rowling’s admission that she thought her titular character Harry Potter should have ended up with know-it-all sidekick, Hermione....
Category: Connected LearningRethinking the ‘Race Between Education and Technology’ Thesis
This year my research team has been pouring over qualitative data that we collected over a year-and-half period from Freeway High School (previously referred to as Texas City High School in earlier...
Categories: Connected Learning, EquityThe Right to Thrive: Connected Learning at the Digital Edge
A few months ago, I interviewed a former high school teacher and asked him what his hope was for the digital media and learning community in 2013. His answer: to push for...
Category: Connected LearningRe-Designing Learning For Democracy
Ann Pendleton-Jullian, the architect and educational redesigner, notes that: “Design has the capacity to shape contexts as frames for things to happen.” My excitement at being part of the connected learning movement...
Categories: Civic Engagement, Connected LearningConnected Learning: Unlocking Potential
One of the more interesting assertions of connected learning is the need to create new approaches to education that recognize the vitality of learning and the fact that it happens in many...
Category: Connected Learning
